Surah Saba: Verse 5 - والذين سعوا في آياتنا معاجزين... - English

Tafsir of Verse 5, Surah Saba

وَٱلَّذِينَ سَعَوْ فِىٓ ءَايَٰتِنَا مُعَٰجِزِينَ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مِّن رِّجْزٍ أَلِيمٌ

English Translation

But those who strive against Our verses [seeking] to cause failure - for them will be a painful punishment of foul nature.

English Transliteration

Waallatheena saAAaw fee ayatina muAAajizeena olaika lahum AAathabun min rijzin aleemin

Tafsir of Verse 5

'And those who strive against Our signs to void them -- theirs shall be a chastisement of painful wrath.'

But those who strive against Our Signs, to frustrate them,- for such will be a Penalty,- a Punishment most humiliating.

And in contrast to them stand: الَّذِينَ سَعَوْا فِي آيَاتِنَا (5) i.e. those who made efforts to find faults with Our verses and tried to stop people from believing in them.

The word: مُعَاجِزِينَ which appears immediately after the verse cited above means that this effort by them was as if they would render Us helpless in seizing them and would thus go scot-free from having to be present on the last day of Qiyamah.

The sentence that follows immediately after: أُولَـٰئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مِّن رِّ‌جْزٍ أَلِيم ; means that these people shall receive punishment, a severe punishment that will be painful.

Verse 5 - Surah Saba: (والذين سعوا في آياتنا معاجزين أولئك لهم عذاب من رجز أليم...) - English